Texas Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 53 private colleges in Texas with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Rice University leads the list by accepting 16% of high school students that applied.
Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
| College | Acceptance Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| R |
Rice University |
16% |
| S |
Southwestern Assemblies of God University |
28% |
| H |
Huston Tillotson University |
30% |
| T |
Texas Wesleyan University |
34% |
| T |
Trinity University |
38% |
| B |
Baylor University |
39% |
| D |
Dallas Baptist University |
39% |
| D |
Dallas Christian College |
40% |
| T |
Texas Christian University |
41% |
| M |
McMurry University |
43% |
| S |
Southwestern University |
43% |
| D |
University of Dallas |
47% |
| L |
LeTourneau University |
47% |
| S |
Southern Methodist University |
49% |
| T |
Texas Lutheran University |
49% |
| A |
Austin College |
52% |
| E |
East Texas Baptist University |
54% |
| P |
Paul Quinn College |
54% |
| A |
Abilene Christian University |
58% |
| H |
Howard Payne University |
59% |
